Custom Control of the Control Panel
With all the new features in Illustrator CS3, there are more commands than ever in the Control panel. Because it’s contextual, the commands available in ...
The Art of Type: Baseline Basics
The best way to measure the relative positions of text blocks on the page is by reckoning from their baselines, those invisible lines upon which ...
Save Loads of Time with Master Pages
In CS2, you could Copy and Paste Master Pages from one document to another or even drag-and-drop them from the Pages palette to an inactive ...
A Nice Welcome to InDesign CS3!
If you’re like me, when you see the new Welcome screen in InDesign CS3, you’ll immediately head for the “Don’t show again”checkbox. Not so fast! ...
Quick, Get In Control of Selecting Similar Objects
In working with complex designs that contain lots of objects, it’s important to be able to select similar objects quickly and easily. That’s why Select ...
Where Are My InDesign Layers in Acrobat?
Being able to retain your InDesign Layers when Exporting a layout to Acrobat can be a very useful feature. One question I get all the ...
Your Kind of Erasing
In a previous tip, I discussed the new Eraser tool (Shift+E), which erases the parts of selected objects that you click-and-drag over. At the end ...
In CS3, the Laws of Transparency Have Been Rewritten
In InDesign CS3, you have much better control of Transparency than ever before because you can apply Transparency to the individual parts of an object. ...